Kangana Ranaut

Date of Birth: 20 March 1987
Sign:
Height: 5' 8" or 1.73 m
City: Bhambla, Himachal Pradesh
Country: India
Mother: Asha Ranaut - schoolt eacher
Father: Amardeep Ranaut - businessman
Siblings: younger brother and elder sister Rangoli
Education: science student - Shimla
Marital status: single
Her heroine: Madhubala, Angelina Jolie and Parveen Babi
Her Hero: Shahrukh Khan, Salman Khan and Aamir Khan
Other facts: she did a bit of theatre in Delhi

Likes: cooking
Favourite food: Hyderabadi Biryan
Favourite fragrance: Bvlgari
Favourite music: Pop, Classical (Ravi Shankar) and Soft
Occupation: bollywood actress
Debut Film: Gangster
Languages: hindi, french, english
Modeling: Elite School of Modeling

Career
Theatre career
Ranaut started her career as a theatre actor in Delhi with the Asmita Theatre Group[4] She trained under eminent theatre director Arvind Gaur.[5] She participated in his theatre workshop at India Habitat Centre and acted in several plays. Her first play with Arvind Gaur was Girish Karnad's Taledanda (Rakt-Kalyan).

Film career
Ranaut joined Asha Chandra's three-month course in 2004 to brush herself to face camera. Ranaut moved to Mumbai to try her luck in movies. During September 2005, Hindi film-maker Anurag Basu spotted her having coffee in a cafe in Bombay, and offered her the leading role in Gangster, written by Mahesh Bhatt, and she accepted it.[6] Released in 2006, the film became both critically and commercially successful and her performance was especially applauded.[7] This was followed by another acclaimed performance in Woh Lamhe (2006).

Later, Kangna starred in yet another Anurag Basu project, the hit film Life In A... Metro, as a confused girl who is looking for a real love. Her performance in the film earned her rave reviews. She also starred in Shakalaka Boom Boom (2007) as an aspiring singer. Her next film, Fashion, starring Priyanka Chopra and Mugdha Godse, was released in 2008. The film, portraying the dark side of the fashion world, was a critical success, and Ranaut's portrayal of a supermodel who loses everything on drug abuse gained her widespread praise, fetching her various awards, including the prestigious Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award and National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Her last successful film was a thriller Raaz - The Mystery Continues with Emraan Hashmi. The movie has been a commercial success and was declared as first reasonable hit of 2009.Her next release was Vaada Raha with Bobby Deol.Ek Niranjan was her second project in the South. Ek Niranjan is a Telugu Film directed by Puri Jagannadh, the director of the movie Pokiri, whose previous film 'Pokiri' has been remade in Hindi as Wanted.